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One of my favorite parts of any trip is when the plane breaks through the clouds and you can see the new world you’re about to enter. The buildings are different, the landscape is different, and it’s the first time you realize you’re not in Kansas anymore. This experience is even better after a really long flight because the sleep…

I’ve been looking forward to writing this article for a long time. As you know, we’ve been running a little experiment here to see how all the strategies I write about can actually impact someone’s journey to financial independence. The Guinea Pig experiment follows two people with identical incomes and identical spending on their journey to financial independence, using real-time…

I think the shock really hit about halfway through the flight. Although the strong smells of drying fish, the weird food, and the jet lag made the previous few days in Hong Kong unique, it wasn’t until we boarded the regional Chinese plane to Wenzhou that a bit of panic started to set in. At first, it was a normal…